Car Country: An Environmental History

By Christopher W. Wells ’95. University of Washington Press, 2012. While many Americas take our car-centric culture for granted, Wells shines a light on the development of this recently new culture, with a specific focus on the relationship between this car culture and our environment. He takes readers on a tour of the evolving American landscape, charting the ways that new transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of an environment built around the easy movement of automobiles.